[St. John, Percy Bolingbroke]:

$600 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

A HUNTER'S EXPERIENCES IN THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE VARIOUS QUADRUPEDS AND BIRDS WHICH ARE THE OBJECTS OF CHASE IN THOSE COUNTRIES. By Captain ... An interesting book of travel and hunting in the American South, by Percy Bolingbroke St. John, the pseudonymous "Captain Flack." Included are accounts of hunting in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, with much on American quadrupeds, fish, and reptiles, as well as a chapter on "bee-hunting." "The outstanding merit of this rare and fascinating book is the author's meticulous attention to detail, based upon his wide range of activity and his particular flare for recording realistically and vividly his pursuit of the fauna of the American South" - Clark.

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